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Suddenly two bombs fell on the building and destroyed it. My wife and I were lucky to survive because we were on the top floor. She was nine months pregnant and gave birth at Al Shifa hospital the day after the attack. “Our entire family has been wiped out.” This testimony from Mohammad Al Dos, whose five-year-old son Rakan was killed in the October 7 attack by Israeli forces on a three-story residential building in Gaza City that killed 15 family members, including 7 minors, perfectly exemplifies Israel's atrocious practices in recent weeks in Gaza. We have been witnessing for weeks the horror of atrocities that we witness live, helplessly, in Gaza and the West Bank, outraged by the images of children without incubators, mass graves, skeletons of buildings and other atrocities on an unprecedented scale. In my more than three decades at Amnesty International I have never seen anything like this. Attack after the lifting of the ceasefire.© Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images An Amnesty International investigation found no signs of military targets in the area at the time of the attack.
If Israeli forces attacked this residential block knowing that only civilians were inside at the time of the attack, this would be a direct attack against civilians or civilian objects, which is prohibited and constitutes a war crime. Even if Israeli forces had attacked what they considered a military objective, attacking a residential building, at a time when it was full of civilians, in the heart of a densely populated civilian neighborhood, and causing such a number of civilian casualties BYB Directory and level of destruction, It would be an indiscriminate attack. Indiscriminate attacks that kill and wound civilians are war crimes. When I read the Amnesty International report, I thought: “ Not again. Even when?" . However, analyzing the topic with perspective and with “long lights”, I thought about the countless (I have already lost count) crises worked out in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I have been working on the arms trade for many years and, with the law in hand, since 2009 at Amnesty we have been saying that weapons cannot be sent to Israel.
This is what we have said year after year, to the governments of Zapatero and Rajoy, in their day, and now we say it to President Sánchez. I trust that this crisis will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and that the Spanish government will act bravely and decisively and definitively cut off the weapons tap to Israel. Israel-Gaza. Protect the civilian population. AID President Sánchez's message to Netanyahu during his visit to Israel last week was forceful: the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces is, indeed, intolerable, and will weigh on the conscience of the international community. It is positive that Sánchez demanded the need to respect international humanitarian law, which regulates the behavior of the parties in all circumstances in armed conflicts since Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions obliges "to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law." . In the current crisis, Israel has been committing alleged war crimes for weeks with bombs, artillery ammunition and other weapons, causing the death and injury of thousands of civilians, ignoring the principles of proportionality and distinction between military and civilian objectives.
If Israeli forces attacked this residential block knowing that only civilians were inside at the time of the attack, this would be a direct attack against civilians or civilian objects, which is prohibited and constitutes a war crime. Even if Israeli forces had attacked what they considered a military objective, attacking a residential building, at a time when it was full of civilians, in the heart of a densely populated civilian neighborhood, and causing such a number of civilian casualties BYB Directory and level of destruction, It would be an indiscriminate attack. Indiscriminate attacks that kill and wound civilians are war crimes. When I read the Amnesty International report, I thought: “ Not again. Even when?" . However, analyzing the topic with perspective and with “long lights”, I thought about the countless (I have already lost count) crises worked out in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I have been working on the arms trade for many years and, with the law in hand, since 2009 at Amnesty we have been saying that weapons cannot be sent to Israel.
This is what we have said year after year, to the governments of Zapatero and Rajoy, in their day, and now we say it to President Sánchez. I trust that this crisis will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and that the Spanish government will act bravely and decisively and definitively cut off the weapons tap to Israel. Israel-Gaza. Protect the civilian population. AID President Sánchez's message to Netanyahu during his visit to Israel last week was forceful: the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces is, indeed, intolerable, and will weigh on the conscience of the international community. It is positive that Sánchez demanded the need to respect international humanitarian law, which regulates the behavior of the parties in all circumstances in armed conflicts since Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions obliges "to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law." . In the current crisis, Israel has been committing alleged war crimes for weeks with bombs, artillery ammunition and other weapons, causing the death and injury of thousands of civilians, ignoring the principles of proportionality and distinction between military and civilian objectives.